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Document title

Composer

Musical Category

Instrumentation (general)

Date

Duration

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Volúpia

Bárbara Sanchez Silva

Opera

Instrumentation (general)

2023

7' 30"

soprano, baritone and instrumental ensemble

Document title Volúpia

Date of Composition · 2023

Instrumentation

Musical Category Opera

Instrumentation (general) soprano, baritone and instrumental ensemble

Instrumentation (detailed)

Soloists	Soprano, Baritone
Winds and Brass	Flute, Soprano Saxophone
Strings (plucked / bowed)	Viola, Cello

Premiere

Date 2024/Jan/27

Performer(s)

Rui Baeta (baritone)
Patrícia Modesto (soprano)
Adriana Almeida (flute)
Philippe Trovão (saxophone)
Magda Pinto (viola)
Joana Correia (cello)
Carlos Marecos and Alexandre Lyra Leite (artistic direction)

Organization/Event Laboratório de Criação de Ópera Contemporânea

Venue Palácio do Sobralinho

Town Vila Franca de Xira

Country Portugal

Program Notes

Florbela Espanca's poetry is imagined here as a messenger of the Love Songs of the trobairitz and troubadours of the 12th century in the South of France. Troubadours write and sing their own verses, living under the code/ethics of Paratge, the principle of equality and balance. Florbela's perseverance and strong, distinctly post-romantic lyrical personality come together in Volúpia, this little opera that I present to you here, with the melodies of medieval Occitania. The Love Songs and the whole tradition of troubadour music appear as a source of study and inspiration on what musical composition today and Florbela Espanca's poetry in the 20th century evoke in us by coming into contact with the ancient tradition of Provencal society. The indomitable and ferocious desire felt in Florbela Espanca's poem recalls the bitter and merciless warnings of some Provençal songs, a love that is always between the mundane and the sublime - a typically operatic tension.

Bárbara Sanchez

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Type

Date

Organization/Event

Venue

Town

Country

Performers

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Inv Row

Volúpia

Premiere

2024/Jan/27

Laboratório de Criação de Ópera Contemporânea

Palácio do Sobralinho

Vila Franca de Xira

Portugal

Notes

Volúpia

Performance

2024/Jan/28

Laboratório de Criação de Ópera Contemporânea

Palácio do Sobralinho

Vila Franca de Xira

Portugal

Rui Baeta (baritone)
Patrícia Modesto (soprano)
Adriana Almeida (flute)
Philippe Trovão (saxophone)
Magda Pinto (viola)
Joana Correia (cello) Carlos Marecos and Alexandre Lyra Leite (artistic direction)

Notes

Volúpia

Performance

2024/Feb/04

Laboratório de Criação de Ópera Contemporânea

Espaço QC

Porto

Portugal

Rui Baeta (baritone)
Patrícia Modesto (soprano)
Adriana Almeida (flute)
Philippe Trovão (saxophone)
Magda Pinto (viola)
Joana Correia (cello) Carlos Marecos and Alexandre Lyra Leite (artistic direction)

Notes

Paulo Ferreira-Lopes

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